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"Boldly Go!" — Caltech"s 2 1/2 Hour Star Trek Musical Parody
By: TrekMovie.com Staff

Last year the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California premiered??Boldly Go!, a live musical parody of Star Trek. ...

Performances were held at Caltech in February and March of last year and now the university has??released the full musical online.

WATCH IT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtBArmWHdY

ENTIRE STORY:
http://trekmovie.com/2017/04/10/great-links-a-star-trek-musical-a-wasp-named-odo-an-award-snub-and-another-best-episode-list/

Gord Green · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:15 pm Post subject:

Good Lord, Bulldog!

This is brilliant!

Shades of Wicked and Pirates of Penzance !

It's better performed than many professional musicals I've seen!

Also, the music and lyrics are spot on!

Custer · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:50 am Post subject:

2 hours 31 minutes... I've downloaded that for watching at a convenient time, 2.38 GB for the 1080p version. It does look like fun! Very Happy

Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:19 am Post subject:

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I have a strange feeling that somebody is going to ask me to watch this with 'em. Very Happy

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Gord Green · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:38 am Post subject:

Well, I think this is a lot of fun!

Plus, I've fallen in love with the Andorian scientist Tak- ya!

Two of the best songs are her "In Any Case" and McCoy's "Dammit Jim----I'm a Doctor!"

You're gonna love it! VERY well performed!

bulldogtrekker · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:42 pm Post subject:

Bud and I watched this musical today. It was good but some of the casting choices for the female cast members were odd. The Andorian female seemed to have the character of Nurse Chapel. Ironically, I liked the brunette actress who played Nurse Chapel. And I very much liked the music.

My advice is to watch the video and form your own opinion.

WATCH IT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtBArmWHdY

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:30 pm Post subject:

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McCoy's song — "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor" — is a clever takeoff on Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General". The melody is very different, but the lyrics are delivered in the same rapid manner, and it has the periodic choruses which repeat parts of the lyrics.

The song starts as the 22:40 mark. Compare it to the Gilber and Sullivan song it parody's so well.
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___ Boldly Go! - a musical parody based upon Star Trek

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__ Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance

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Fans of the Saturday morning CGI cartoon series, Reboot might remember that the series conclude with a parody of "Modern Major-General" as well. Very Happy

__ The Mainframe Strolling Players Sing a Recap of Season 3

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:20 pm Post subject:

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And just to keep this thread current and relevant, here's a Gilbert and Sullivan parody from the Western Australian Symphony that I think is damned clever. Laughing

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)